End of the summer

It's been a while since I posted the last entry not because there is nothing to show but because of being busy with various activities. In the meantime the garden has been changing every day and thriving with colors and scent. And producing lots of stuff.

Many bountiful fruits such as tomatoes, courgettes (botanically fruits), raspberries, and salad leaves such as chard, spinach and of course herbs among other things have been filling our garden to the point that sometimes we are not able to cope!!

Wild life is also very happy in Fairlie Grow, we found a colony of bees (not honeybees though) living in a hole in one of the planters. (I promise to post a photo when I have time)

These photos are 2 weeks old but are worth looking. Click on the photos to make them bigger:



Achocha climbing through the trellis. It is a southamerican cumcumber relative, very beautiful and vigorous.



Tomatoes - so heavily cropping that they will break the branches unless they are helped with canes and strings!



No pumpkins on sight yet but we don't lose hope. Runner beans however scarce are delicious, especially a round type one.



 
More tomatoes - too much greenery in my opinion but isn't it nice the smell they have?

Our blooming garden

Geranium x oxonianium 'Claridge Druce'   Pisum sativum (garden pea) flowers

Shiva                                                    Cosmos bipinnatus flower        

wildife and fruits

THEY ARE BACK!!!

in the last couple of days i must have picked 100s! let's all arm ourselves with empty humus pots and let's go get them! ;)
mal

Flowers, bumblebees and spiders.

Top soil!!!!

Spring is here!!... and with it, the topsoil.

In a beautiful and sunny Friday morning, a bunch of us were actually brave enough to lug up by hand and through a very narrow stairwell 2 tons of top soil! After this, who needs to go to the gym?

It only took us around 1 hour, though. We are still in pretty good shape, aren't we? :)

And now it is time to plant everything we can possibly imagine. Things are looking up! Everything's starting to take shape at last.

Nice day out .. working

Today we though the spring had arrived already. The temperature was around 15C, something I have been dreaming of for weeks if not months. So some of the residents and friends spent a time working in the communal area. A lot of things still need to be done so we kept ourselves busy ...and we still waiting for the soil ...
Slowly but surely the project is taking shape.

 

Things are looking good in the cold frame!! A lot of the cuttings we put in pots last season have rooted, although it has been some degree of failure. What started as a sort of experiment turned out with a good percentage of success anyways.

-Hey, would u gimme that purple sage? -It's a present for you actually. -Thank you mate.

    

Building a few more wooden pots and a stand for the water butt.

Mal, Roskar and our friend the water butt.